Jordan Hatcher has published a draft of the Open Database Licence, which is an agreement intended to allow users to “freely share, modify, and use” databases while maintaining the same freedoms for others. I’ve gone through the draft, and it is pretty good stuff. The licence clearly helps to plug Read more
(via EFF Deep Links) Microsoft has released a Game Content Usage Rules, which will make it easier for machinima enthusiasts to assert their copyright from content generated in games like Halo (1-3), Age of Empires, Rise of Nations, and Project Gotham Racing. The inspired grant of licence reads: “Here’s the Read more
One more case in the ongoing battle in Spain between SGAE and small bars over copyleft music. Derecho de Internet reports on this latest appeal by the SGAE against a bar in Madrid called “Buenavistilla Social Club”. The collecting society initially lost the case and therefore appealed to have the Read more
Colleague and friend Jordan Hatcher has requested me to reproduce this notice. Use of open content licences by cultural heritage organisations The Eduserv Foundation is funding a study into the use of Creative Archive, Creative Commons and similar open content licences by cultural heritage organisations in the United Kingdom. The Read more
Wikipedia is great. However, as a sometimes editor, I’m starting to grow tired of getting involved in endless editing wars with people who are not experts on the subjects. If you don’t like a rant, look away now. I’m perfectly happy with people editing and disagreeing on all sort of Read more
The Creative Commons blog has published some of the latest licence usage statistics. Mike Linksvayer and Giorgios Cheliotis have made public some of the statistics presented at the iSummit, which provide a lot of tasty food for thought for licence geeks everywhere. The data comes with a lot of caveats, Read more
Last night I attended Professor Eben Moglen’s lecture at the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh, organised by the Scottish branch of the Society for Computer and Law. The first thing I noticed was that that the audience present in the lecture theatre was starkly divided between the Read more
As part of the synergy generated in the iCommons summit, several Latin American leads suggested the creation of a new aggregated blog bringing together voices talking about open content, CC and other related topics. Thanks to Katitza Rodríguez from CC-Peru we now have a new blog. If you would like Read more
Last week we reported on the case brought by Spain’s collecting agency SGAE against a bowling bar in Alicante, which lost on its claim that it only played “copyleft” music. Almost immediately, another case has come out, this one in favour of the claimant bar. As I reported last week, Read more